Rethinking DCIS: A Conversation with Dr. Kornelia Polyak
Sometimes referred to as stage 0 breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a noninvasive growth of abnormal...
Sometimes referred to as stage 0 breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a noninvasive growth of abnormal...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Cancer Discovery, a journal of the AACR. To celebrate the anniversary, Cancer Discovery published a special anniversary issue, featured spotlights on groundbreaking articles on its website, and held the Cancer Discovery ...
Disparities in health care are among the most significant forms of inequality and injustice. In the United States, racial...
November is National Family Caregivers Month—a time to raise awareness for the approximately 3 million people in the U.S....
The tobacco product landscape is evolving and the AACR Tobacco Products and Cancer Subcommittee has been cognizant of the...
This year, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will celebrate its 115th birthday. From the very beginning, women...
In 2021, Lillian L. Siu, MD, and Elaine R. Mardis, PhD, FAACR, each received a call from AACR Chief...
Guest Post by Charles L. Sawyers, MD AACR Project GENIE Steering Committee Chairperson
A session at the AACR Annual Meeting 2024 offered advice on better ways to communicate science to the public....
The AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer opened Monday with a keynote address from the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Well...
In January, when most of us in the United States were busy living the hustle and bustle of everyday life, one shrewd virologist and computer biologist saw...
By Cancer Today Staff News stories about efforts to eliminate and prevent cancer often tell the story in broad...
For Bruce Hill, who was diagnosed with stage 4 clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in 2017, scientific progress...
Virtual scientific meetings have become the “new normal” in the COVID-19 era, enabling researchers to present and discuss recent...
The field of medical oncology is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Cancers that were once considered death sentences, such as...
Adding denosumab (Xgeva) to adjuvant aromatase inhibitor therapy improved disease-free survival for postmenopausal women with early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast...
Adding the PI3-kinase inhibitor pictilisib to fulvestrant doubled progression-free survival for some women with advanced hormone-receptor positive breast cancer,...
Researchers are exploring new combinations of therapy, disrupting iron accumulation, and turning tumors hot in attempts to make ovarian...
In 2015, NFL running back Brandon Bolden was having an incredible season with the New England Patriots. That year,...
In the span of a decade, the idea that tumor-derived molecules circulating in the bloodstream and other body fluids...
You’re feeling sluggish. You eat a banana. You feel better. We all know that a calorie-rich snack can provide...
The 41st San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 4-8, drew more than 7,500 attendees from more than 90...
As we finally welcome spring, enjoy this hand-picked selection of articles brought to you by the editors of the...
Among the studies published during the month of October in the nine AACR journals, the editors have chosen to highlight results from two clinical trials of DNA...
The prognosis for a patient with cancer depends on several factors, including the cancer’s stage. Patients whose cancers are diagnosed at earlier...
Cancer researchers and cancer survivors are often viewed in separate silos. Scientists toil away alone in laboratories to decode the mechanisms of the disease and test novel molecules. Cancer...
Recent advances in cancer research has led to enormous progress against many cancer types. From 1991 to 2015, we...
Researchers developed a model that uses the gut microbiome to predict if a patient's tumor would have a response...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people may be at increased risk of certain cancers.
A career in industry is becoming less an alternative and more a conventional career choice. One scientist explains how...